to. the latest news on the week's top stories egyptians are waiting round one results of the pivotal referendum on the new draft constitution that continues to test the scientific part where the violence on the wrong things. the tide said to be turning against the embattled syrian government other struggles to be al-qaeda linked rebels who are getting more assistance from abroad. and president person says it's now or never has the cause of the russians no way gets to over pull the economy russian understanding the outflow of the country's wells.

this is broadcasting live from our brand new agey studios here in moscow. a very warm welcome to the program and withstand in egypt so it's one it's turned as it always there was a round one of the crucial referendum on its first post revolution constitution people were deciding whether to approve a draft written by an islamist led panel the document is strongly biased by president morsi and his muslim brotherhood but has been slammed by the opposition polling stations remained open late until eleven pm local time due to a very high turnout while heightened tensions in the build up to the vote resulted in violence by fighters had to rush to the offices of a liberal opposition party in central cairo after it was a fiercely at times by petrol bombs journalist and middle east analyst

a comment that he believes the ongoing referendum will further distance the nation from any kind of consensus. morsi is not showing any signs of flexibility he's not showing any signs of building consensus in years shown to be a very stubborn man a person regardless of the outcome of the referendum the scene in egypt right now it's indicative that there is going to be a mass scale. playing with the results there is already reports about money and sustenance is being given to poor people to encourage them to go out and vote favorably with yes constitution and on the other side the egyptians are still divided into different groups and the mobilization of the voters are not going as it should have been going so it's not really representative

of the nation's whim or of the consensus that should have been existing here. so egypt has made very little headway in addressing what really matters to people that's according to a prominent opposition figure and former presidential candidate is in tears coming up here and i'll see you later this hour. the situation in egypt generally stands because of the fact that nothing has really changed the change that we wanted that people hoped for dealing with the services education the health care and the rest of the file pertaining to the life of egyptians have not really produced anything new people want egypt to look forward to look to the future to link up with the world to deal with our problems that are suitable not impossible. problems so why should we stay

put. one point and don't move this is the thing that we are courting on the president and the new government on the new b.g. and on our sense that we have to move on we have not but i believe that he's convinced of what he is doing and here we differ with him we believe that this last and stick. syrian government forces are long there were saving and of opposition offensives as the rebel made gains in battles across the country in the push towards damascus it comes after the opposition received another bruise this week when their diplomatic status was upgraded by he was led group of nations also donated more than one hundred million dollars to the assad count meanwhile nato is deploying surface to air missiles and troops to neighboring turkey ancora requested the reinforcements

from its allies after a series of calls aboard exchanges of fire with syria alliance officials now claim the syrian government has begun using ballistic missiles against the rebels something denied by damascus she is gay much account takes now a closer look at who's fighting against assad. they call themselves martyrs. all those you see around you of the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country the syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat us. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having a child behead a man who was presumably an assault supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground islamic groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr tao we come

meet was a member of a jihadi spoken ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam the jihadists have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin ladin and they're all because of al qaida who have no hesitation to use any form of whip around to to to really. like. control any place. religious believes in ideology the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. . in friends married morocco to throw their weight behind the newly formed syrian opposition coalition two thirds of the islamic dominated entire south coalition has the highest of the muslim brotherhood in cellophane and their idea of freedom for syria what. a positive sign for us that our military struggle is characterized by being mostly islamic because martyrdom for the sake of anna has always been the main motive of people. in what's seen as

a symbolic attempts to distance themselves from terrorists in syria washington has designated one of the rebel groups a terrorist organization but the same syrian opposition that the us supports welcomes the efforts of groups like al nusra the decision of considering one of the factions fighting the regime as a terrorist organization should be reconsidered. this is a demonstration of support for almost in syria with people heard chanting we are students of osama. people here in washington don't seem to understand that if you don't like the government in cairo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamic government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide

bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria preferring to focus on the wrongs committed by the assad regime alone the u.s. is also ramping up the rhetoric about the possibility of the assad government using chemical weapons against civilians something that damascus says would be suicidal on the other hand many rebels are not averse to the idea of suicide in the name of what they call holy war militants have recently taken control of a toxic chemical plant in the country's second city of aleppo a video was uploaded to youtube showing them testing chemical weapons on. rabbits' we could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage for that on the sleeve you will die like these two rabbits in its own words the government is fighting terrorists that has claimed thousands of innocent lives the measures the syrian government resorted to have been widely criticized but does that mean the world should keep their eyes shocked at who's actually fighting for power in syria now in washington i'm going to check on. and maybe least x.

but try me so it says the deployment of nato missiles in turkey could pave the way for intervention this is obviously the reason for stage three missiles on syria's border is not because of an attack by syria because there's actually no likelihood that syria is going to attack turkey and in any case those missiles to be directed against planes or ballistic missiles not against the artillery shells or mortars that informant crossed the but the turkish border accidentally so the obvious question is why those fighters there and speculation is based on the fact that perhaps they're there as the first step to declaring a no fly zone and direct measurement intervention sometime next year and one has to ask the question who did the germans who did the british who did the americans who do all the think it's appalling in syria they're not supporting troops who committed to democracy you know supporting groups the community political transition not supporting groups that are committed to in any way the sole mission

of open transparent state. earlier this week alleging that person to hand russia's political elite on the edges of the seats in his fast on all addressed to lawmakers since returning as president handled tough new anti corruption measures and a plan to stem the outflow of a wealth from the country also called for a drastic overhaul of the resource based economy and a boost to the social sector as well he's alexei your chest curable. several years ago when former president medvedev addressed russia's lawmakers this signaled major constitutional changes for the country with the presidential term being extended to six years this time when president putin delivered his first annual address after returning to the kremlin for the third time it ran no major sensations nor political changes but at the same time this speech was even more significant as some have already said than many others before this time put in barely spoke about

any foreign policy issues the main focus was on domestic problems in russia and there have been plenty according to russia's president in fact he started his speech by saying it is now or never as the world is going through a crisis russia must stand up to all these challenges and the first and the most correct way to do that is to invest in two youths not retreat is the what's the as of today the percentage of healthy active able bodied people in russia aged between twenty to forty is one of the highest in the world twenty years time economically active population could shrink by fifty percent less we do something this trend will continue either we provide interesting jobs give opportunities to create business build families raise children be happy just a few decades russia will become a poor country populated by an elderly generation incapable of preserving its own territory. but the biggest issue dragging russia backwards for the past several

decades has been the corruption among the higher echelons of power and that is why the largest chunk of putin's speech was dedicated to their struggle and the president came up with some very tough rhetoric unheard and all twelve years putin has been in politics in russia but no wonder it seemed at times that putin was not addressing the whole russia and not for the whole world to see but he directed a stern warning to those. sitting in front of him in order that we could you know when you can how can people trust an official or a politician who talks a lot about the good of russia at the same time tries to take his money out of the country i ask you to support the bill to limit the amount of foreign accounts and stocks that officials and politicians can have unleashed that the people. don't applaud yet maybe you won't like everything i have to say but even put in we'll be holding an annual press conference for the world media and the eyes of the

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download free blog just wanted a video for your media projects and free media dog r t dot com. great to have you with us the three presidents have received the nobel peace prize on behalf of the union out of one town many in those low brussels was recognized for its efforts in promoting peace and democracy on the continent but even before the prize was hundred over the nomination sparked mass controversy several former winners of world to the nobel foundation demanding that be stripped of their ward and on the eve of the presentation hundreds joined

a protest march in the norwegian capital as all of a found out of those are not the only issues undermining the credibility of the prize. mark four little children. will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of about them but by the content of back our appetite the one that candy probably would have become the laureate ikey home be assassinated however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person this is when it tests such kind teria especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gong sparked heated debate the award was being discredited particularly after the outrage at whose picked it up recently well to be frank inside the united states i don't think very many people pay attention to the nobel peace prize anymore large

numbers of americans were stunned when yasser arafat received the nobel peace prize many years ago president obama was given a prize for reasons that no one understood and see what's the done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's with the of such a prestigious award. and supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrate his outrage by the failure of the government's. skeptics and nuff it devalues the whole concept of the nobel peace prize and what's really happening is that the european union is having its worst year ever at its mates and the international community coming to it's a brit to have been awarded of the announcement to be made in the very week that i went to athens and was greeted not just by tens of thousands of protesters but people dressed up in swastikas and giving it the salafis frankly i grew up in

a europe that was divided from east to west and i'm now living in a europe that is divided from north to south and never at any point in the history of this union. has there been more discord rancor that we currently got among more moderate forces there are concerns the peace prize is being used as a political football i think this award basically does a lot to kind of discredit past people who've won this prize i mean it demonstrates a sort of heavy politicization of the use of this award i know it's been suggested that this year's winner of the peace prize picked it up more for not having done something as opposed to having food the peace around the globe it seems like they got the prize more because there hasn't been any war in europe for many decades rather than having done anything specific i think as long as civic institutions like the nobel prize continue to lose their legitimacy in their spirit through political favoritism and these prizes are always political but such blatant and

obvious political favoritism and maneuvering i think it actually takes something away and i think it's actually damaging leaves the whole institution of the prize facing the question whether the nobility is being drained from the new down peter all of a r t fairly. and as they prize winning european union continues to bottle economic and social turmoil increasingly more people in britain want out and steven wolf spokes person for the u.k. independence party says his country would be full battle going at. there is a certain cobell of politicians and advisors in this country who are petrified that they're no longer going to be at the central table of europe enjoying the late night events and the flash cars and the hotels that they get the decision making the real buzz of being there but there are those like me actually and our party that believe that being outside of this particular about would actually influence

great great britain's influence would actually rise and we'd be able to trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're freed of these regulations at the moment you can see that even from the government's own statistics they show that recently trade with the rest of the world as risen dramatically whilst our trade with europe has actually fallen and that's not surprising to ourselves because we see that the rest of the world where recently eastern in asia or looking at south america or indeed the middle east and then there's going to be a great push in africa there are countries with rising populations and rising middle class that demand products we have expertise that could and should be used trading with them. and while britain struggles to get bonk on its feet after a recession some corporate giants are going out of their way to wriggle out of paying their fair share so little time avoidance course britain turns of billions of pounds each year and

a country facing one of europe's toughest austerity drives it seems that a figure that can no longer be ignored. reports. of people from all of the border tend not to protect this country it's with companies like starbucks and apple and google at the moment it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance illegal but morally suspect way companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people are due to discuss these companies do not the v.a. taxation which is a criminal offense but void taxation basically use existing facilities and legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation in different countries to their advantage companies like. the head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg so well

known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a lower tax rate but hang on a minute we're here at one of amundsen's must've distribution centers based in the in fact the reality is that many of our customers most of their employees and many will distribution centers like this was are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing fact as they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise it as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out. on the face of. to run because you could register your transaction in different country and the place of registration is the place of taxation where as you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal

. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy ek government would be eager to plug the holes it's letting billions of much needed tax pounds you can count on spending but in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the penniless on welfare he went in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on benefit for clamping down on multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him but there are now that people know that. or doing. it now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it off the payroll there's a difference between people. who are of voiding tax through legitimate reasons and

those who are illegally doing it and those are to do when we all know they're still avoiding paying where interested me again today let me actually answer the question once before you actually interoperability tax avoid is ok to legally tailor what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's that you're saying there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less than the tax payers they're profiting from sarah ferguson r.t. london. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says it expects to reach an agreement with iran to inspect the parchin military complex which has come under suspicion at the time. atomic

activities they are a one meter officials from tehran next month to try to finalize the deal a number was intelligent agencies believe the area was once used by iran to conduct tests of explosives with nuclear elements while powers are seeking to resolve a long running dispute over the country's nuclear ambitions which so also is out for peaceful purposes only the country is suffering under severe you are sanctions as well as other trade restrictions from the us canada britain and the e.u. maria fein notional went to tell iran to find out how people that feel about their nation's standoff with the west. three decades of pride followed by three years of mourning when i'm in syria met her future husband a young physicist she immediately knew he'd come a long way indeed he went on to become one of the rounds leading nuclear scientists and to it all ended one sunny morning in january two thousand and ten.

the left to work and then i heard a terrible explosion i rushed to see what happened he was lying like this. mr i called my screwed my screwed john my ass i thought he was just scared then i turned to him there was no face just blood in tissues he was the first victim in a gruesome trend associated with his work since two thousand and ten at least three other nuclear scientists have been murdered in iran doesn't want kids they're working hard so their country didn't need to beg other nations for no house we have the right acquires this knowledge and feel independent he needs women series husbands began embarking on his nuclear career it was not a life threatening occupation in the seventy's western countries were eager to how piron developed its own nuclear program supplying it with technology with no strings attached that changed. in the iranian regime deed was earlier seen as

inalienable rights reclaim its biggest liability emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear weapons billions of dollars have been pumped into the industry before the revolution at the time of the shah why should they give up now just because western powers say sun while iran's nuclear program is now a target of western political discourse there is only suspicion and no internationally recognized evidence that a country's moving towards build an atomic weapon iranian officials believe all this tension is fabricated with the same purpose to demonize them in the eyes of international community if you have knife in your kitchen and some of the recent concert is contra your home and said go or knife is very dangerous maybe you want to use it to from some people this is a very. george king idea the perceived fear is that the iranian regime can't be

trusted with a nuclear capacity but even those who want to turn to change of leadership say should be no negotiable for the country i cannot tell you she has come by iranian national policy but if you did hear that i was. kind of struggle between iran. even you. want life from the south device which is preventing. the blast that killed one serious husband was seduced shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death both the west and iran are equally failing to move forward and while the west is only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice rife nationality from to her around. and still to come on l.c. for you marking the start of the movement hundreds gathered. on to government

demonstration in moscow to tens of thousands of runners in the country's capital. and also to the break we meet the victims of forced sterilization and a decades long eugenics for a woman in the u.s. have yet to receive any compensation more after a break. we'll look at. technology innovation. developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. you. destruction with and see. what could be just really.